Brief Description
Focuses on the two central conflicts of capitalism, bourgeois versus proletarian and core versus periphery.
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A collection of essays on the working of capitalism as a world system, over historical time as well as the contemporary era, focuses on the conflicts between core and periphery and bourgeois and proletarian.
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In this book, the author focuses on the two central conflicts of capitalism, bourgeois versus proletarian and core versus periphery, in an attempt to describe both the cyclical rhythms and the secular transformations of capitalism, conceived as a singular world-system.
Review Quotes
1. 'The Capitalist World-Economy deserves to be read carefully, critically, and intelligently.' Journal of Economic Issues
2. 'The thesis is argued vigorously and with considerable sophistication and will help sharpen perceptions of an important dimension of the structure of world economic relationships which informs much of the demand for a new international economic order.' International Affairs
3. ?The Capitalist World-Economy deserves to be read carefully, critically, and intelligently.? Journal of Economic Issues
4. ?The thesis is argued vigorously and with considerable sophistication and will help sharpen perceptions of an important dimension of the structure of world economic relationships which informs much of the demand for a new international economic order.? International Affairs
5. ???The Capitalist World-Economy deserves to be read carefully, critically, and intelligently.??? Journal of Economic Issues
6. ???The thesis is argued vigorously and with considerable sophistication and will help sharpen perceptions of an important dimension of the structure of world economic relationships which informs much of the demand for a new international economic order.??? International Affairs
